Rakim Bulgarov

Rakim Bulgarov (died 28 June 2016) was an Islamic State fighter from Kyrgyzstan and one of the perpetrators of the 2016 Istanbul Ataturk Airport attack.

Biography
Rakim Bulgarov was born in Kyrgyzstan to a Sunni Muslim Kyrgyz family, and he joined the Islamic State during the Syrian Civil War. Bulgarov was trained at al-Raqqa, Syria, and the Chechen IS leader Akhmed Chatayev prepared Bulgarov, Vadim Osmanov, and another attacker for a martyrdom operation in Turkey. In 2015, they crossed into Turkey from the IS stronghold of Raqqa, and they arrived in Istanbul, equipped with weapons adn suicide vests. On 28 June 2016, the three attackers fired on civilians in the airport before blowing themselves up; one blew himself up in the parking lot, another blew himself up at the security checkpoint, and another blew himself up after he was gunned down and began to bleed out.